Mya's 7th Birthday Banner

Hi!  I'm back to share with you guys a banner I created for my little girl's 7th birthday party.  It will be hung outside as sort of a marker for her guests, but for right now you are seeing it hung in my hallway, so please excuse the bad lighting.  I took a set of 3 lei necklaces I bought for a dollar at the Dollar Tree and just strung them all into one long string of lei, then attached each banner pennant to it using some thin ribbons.

The base of the banners were cut using an image purchased from the Silhouette Store, cut with my Cameo.  It came in a set of four different banners for 99 cents.   I used the offset feature on the Silhouette Studio to create the shadow.  I used the Ravie font to cut out the letters in the banner, embossed each letter with the Plum Blossom CB folder then used foam mounts to attach each letter to the pennants.  I then added 3 Card Candis to each letter.  I also added more Card Candis to highlight the scallop design on the bottom of each banner.  Below are some close up pictures of the banners.

For one of the pennats, I used my Cricut to cut a doll and its layers from the Everyday Paper Dolls cart and used PK stamps for her face.  The balloon was cut using Celebrate With Flourish cart.  The "7" was from the Disney Pooh Font cart.  Below is a close up of it.

And there you have it!  I so appreciate you stopping by!  Have a wonderful weekend!

August CC Monthly Challenge

OMG it has been sooooo long ago since I got some crafting done!  I thank all of my followers who are still here and have not unsubscribed (or didn't know how to - haha you're stuck with me - just kidding!) through my looooong "absence".  I have no excuse except that my kiddos kept me busy this past summer.  And just in case you're wondering, yep they're back to school which means I can hopefully get more crafting and blogging done.  And what better way to start again by entering some creative challenges.

I am entering this 4 page LO in the Cricut Circle Blog August Monthly Challenge.  The challenge was to create a scene using at least 2 different Cricut cuts. 

I have tons of digital pictures that needed to be printed and scrapped, hence these particular pics were taken way back in 2008 during our day trip to San Francisco with a good friend who was visiting from the UK.  We packed a good deal of activities in that one day that I just had to scrap most of them.  Yes, I packed about 16 pictures in this 4-page LO. 

closer look at the first 2 pages

and here's a closer look at the next 2 pages

Details of my project:

*4  12x12 page LO

*2 Golden Gate Bridge images and shadow (one image flipped) - Destinations cart

*water waves -  Life is a Beach cart

*title "San Francisco 2008" - Life is a Beach cart

*dolphins - Life is a Beach cart

*sea lions - Animal Kingdom cart

*clouds in varying sizes (embossed with D'vine Swirls CB folder) - Stand and Salute cart

*sun with cloud (embossed with D'vine Swirls CB folder and stamped with Peachy Keen stamp face) - Celebrate with Flourish cart

Thanks so much for looking!